Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join GreyNoise, a mission-driven security startup, as a Platform Engineer. Lead technical projects, ensuring alignment with customer and organizational needs. Act as a technical leader, triaging tickets, prioritizing tasks, and guiding sprint planning. Improve logging, monitoring, and telemetry practices. Collaborate across engineering to shape the future of the GreyNoise platform. Design and deliver customer-facing platform capabilities, focusing on reliability, scalability, and performance. Debug and troubleshoot complex production issues. Mentor other engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing. This fully remote US-based position offers competitive benefits and a collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading technical projects and helping teams navigate competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• A structured approach to triaging issues: the ability to quickly assess, prioritize, and delegate or resolve problems during on-call rotations
• Strong debugging skills, including the ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues across APIs, integrations, and distributed systems
• 5+ years of production software engineering experience, including: Developing and maintaining RESTful APIs and integrations
• Working with Go (Golang) for backend development
• Managing cloud-based infrastructure using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation, including ECS, EKS, RDS, and AWS
• Migration of existing applications to new platform technologies
• Designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using Github Actions
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and supporting applications running on it
• Experience managing or building applications that utilize Elasticsearch for search and analytics pipelines
• A firm understanding of computer networking
• A collaborative and communicative mindset, with a willingness to engage across teams and disciplines to deliver customer value
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted tooling for infrastructure management and as part of your day-to-day workflow

Responsibilities

• Lead projects involving platform engineering, infrastructure, integration, and API development, ensuring alignment with customer and organizational needs
• Act as a technical leader, helping triage on-call tickets, prioritize and unblock team members, and guide sprint planning to drive effective execution
• Identify and implement incremental improvements to our practices for logging, monitoring, and telemetry to ensure quick identification and resolution of issues
• Collaborate across the engineering organization to steer the future of how the GreyNoise platform and the services running on it are delivered
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to design and deliver customer-facing platform-level capabilities with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance
• Debug and troubleshoot complex production issues across multiple systems, leveraging strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Serve as a mentor for other engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and technical excellence

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing/integrating with service mesh technologies like AWS Service Connect and Istio
• Familiarity with authentication and security standards like OAuth, SAML, and TLS
• Experience with delivering data to customers through APIs, SDKs, or other data integration methods
• Strong interest in customer success and the ability to translate technical requirements into impactful solutions
• Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools to improve observability (e.g. Grafana, Honeycomb, CloudWatch)
• Experience managing event-driven application architectures using technologies like Kafka
• Familiarity with business intelligence systems and integration

Benefits

• Equity in a high-growth, Series-A startup
• 100% covered health, dental, vision, and life plans for all employees
• Competitive 401k employer match of 6%, which is special for a startup. This will be 100% matched and vested from day 1
• Unlimited paid time off. To encourage time off from work and ensure overall employee health and wellness, GreyNoise strongly recommends each employee to take at least 120 hours of PTO (3 weeks) annually, including at least five consecutive business days
• Remote-first culture. While we are headquartered in the Washington DC area, we have a distributed workforce -- with the majority of our team working remotely from across the country
• Equipment budget. Every new employee gets $3,000 to spend on equipment, so you can pick whatever works best for you
• Paid family leave for all employees. We offer 4 months of paid leave (birth or adoption), plus 2 months of optional unpaid leave, so new parents have time to adjust to the new life (and work) schedule
• Learning & development budget. All employees receive an annual $1,500 towards professional development related to their job function. The stipend can be applied to tuition, books, conferences, and more
• Company offsites and monthly local hangouts to encourage team bonding